The 1981 Listening Post - 999 Concrete

999 - Concrete #139 April 1980 999 Concrete Genre: Snot Rock 3 out of 5 For the other 999 record I wrote: “This is a super delicious power rock offering with mugfulls of snot and just enough punk to not be too pop and enough pop to not be too punk.” Well, this one, just a year later is a kind of uninspired power rock offering with sniffles and a memory of what it was like to be a punk but it started to listen to more pub stuff and found themselves enjoying the pop as the desire to be a “punk” started to fade away. Case in point: The utter predicability of drum fills and walk downs on “Little Red Riding Hood” show a band that has lost interest or just can’t find the inspiration. The Clash got bored and went full reggae/dance. 999 got bored and didn’t know what to do so they just wrote boring songs. Just listen to “Bongos on the Nile” and tell me this isn’t a band that has run out of ideas. On second thought, don’t bother. Just take my word for it. I wish the rest of the record was more loony like “Public Enemy No. 1” but, alas, these guys aren’t really that much fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dNbocfhzA